Kent Conrad actually said...

CBO's new estimates show the deficit in 2009 will be $1.2 trillion.

We need a stimulus package. We need it badly. But we need it to be on point.

the commitment we made to the Secretary's people was we would get him out of here at 12:15, and we are close to that.

my own view is it will probably be in that 4 percent of GDP range as they do their own rescoring of all of this.